Attack At country Music Festival, Dead And Injured At Shooting In Las Vegas

In Las Vegas there was a shooting at a country concert. There are dead, numerous injured persons were taken to hospitals. A suspected assailant is out of action.

At a country concert in the US gambling metropolis Las Vegas, at least one gunman shot around and injured many people, reports the police. A supposed shooter was thus overwhelmed. Whether the suspect was killed or injured is still unclear.

At least two people were killed according to a hospital spokeswoman. More than 24 people were taken to hospitals with firearms. 14 of them are therefore in critical condition. The concert was home to about 30,000 visitors.

The police called on the people through Twitter to avoid the area near the casino mile and the airport. She locked the grounds of the Las Vegas Strip. The authorities ask that eyewitnesses should not pass information on Twitter in order not to hinder the deployment.

Several flights from McCarran Airport have been redirected.

The background of the shooting is still unclear. The police reported that they were investigating the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Casino on the city's amusement park. It is still unclear whether it is one or more shooters. However, the police are not currently assuming that there will be more shooters on the casino mile than the overwhelmed person, the authorities announced on Twitter.

According to an unconfirmed report from the New York Times, the police are investigating allegations that shots have also been fired at other locations in the city.

According to reports, hundreds of shots were fired. Many people would have been lying on the ground, a young man told CNN. He heard shots at around 10 pm local time, another concert-goer told NBC. "Then the band ran off the stage," he said. "Everybody ran, people were trampled down."

She had heard shots from automatic weapons for 20 minutes, a Swiss tourist told the portal "20 minutes".

"The police told us to stay in the room, take off the shoes and close the doors," she said. Helicopters circled the hotel and policemen were standing in the corridors. The guests should have reserved themselves for a possible evacuation, until then "we must sit still in the hotel room in the dark on the floor."(spiegel)

Andreas Schmidt Is Dead

His distinctive face is known as "The Counterfeiters" and "Timm Thaler". He gained fame mainly through the cinema hit "Sommer vorm Balkon": Now Andreas Schmidt died at the age of 53 years.

He made a name for himself with difficult milieus studies. In films like Eoin Moore's "Pigs Will Fly" from 2002, he played violent characters, but also brought unexpected nuances into the characters through his fine-minded play. With his director Moore, he also directed "Conamara" (2000) or "Plus-minus zero" (1998).

Andreas Schmidt was born in Heggen in the Sauerland region in 1963 and grew up in Berlin's Märkisches Viertel. He recently lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Again and again the films, in which he appeared, turned around the Kiez. About Michael Klier's "Heidi M." (2001), "Im Schwitzkasten" (2005, again directed by Moore), and Andreas Dresen's success story "Sommer vorm Balkon" (2005), by which Schmidt became known to a larger audience .

His character was also seen in "crime scene" and "police" episodes. He belonged to the team of the KZ drama "Die Fälscher", which won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 2008. In April 2009 he received the German Filmpreis as the best nepidarist for his performance in "Fleisch ist mein Gemüse". Most recently, he was seen in the cinema at the beginning of 2017 in the children's film "Timm Thaler or the sold Laughter" (again under the director's direction).


Now Andreas Schmidt died at the age of 53 years after a long illness on Thursday in Berlin, as his agent on Friday communicated.(spiegel)

Bayern Munich Split From Coach Ancelotti

The Champions League defeat in Paris was too much: FC Bayern München gave coach Carlo Ancelotti the liberation. Co-coach Willy Sagnol will be taking over the team.

FC Bayern Munich have parted ways with coach Carlo Ancelotti. The club confirmed in the afternoon appropriate reports from Sportbild and Sky News . Ancelotti's Italian team was also released. The coaching coach Willy Sagnol, coached the FC Bayern with the training management. The 40-year-old Sagnol will sit on the bench against Hertha BSC Berlin on Sunday. The ESPN had earlier reported Ancelotti had the German football champions offered his resignation.

In a statement the association is Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, chairman of Bayern Munich, quoted: "The performance of our team since beginning of the season did not meet the expectations we place on them." The Champions League game in Paris had "clearly shown that we had to draw consequences," Hasan Salihamidžić and I told Carlo today in an open and serious discussion and informed him of our decision, "the communication said.

Rummenigge thanked Ancelotti: "I would like to thank Carlo for the cooperation and regret the development she has taken. Carlo is my friend and will remain, but we had to make a professional decision in the sense of FC Bayern." He now expects a positive development and absolute performance of the team.
Consequences in plain text

On the eve, the Munich side lost 3-0 against Paris Saint-Germain . Ancelotti asked for an unusual start, leaving Mats Hummels, Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben and Jérôme Boateng on the bench. Already in the second minute the Bayern conceded the 0: 1. Also the rest of the evening they had no chance against the team around the Brazilian Neymar.
Rummenigge spoke in the evening in Paris of a "bitter defeat, which must be discussed, which must be analyzed and from which we must also draw conclusions in plain text."
With the release of Ancelottis, the club drew the consequences of the defeat in the Champions League, but also an unsatisfying Bundesliga start. After six games, Bayern Munich are in third place in the Bundesliga, behind TSG Hoffenheim and Borussia Dortmund.

Ancelotti had taken over the trainer before the season 2016/17 from Pep Guardiola. With the 58-year-old Italian, Bayern won the German championship. In the DFB Cup, however, the Munichers failed in the semifinals to Borussia Dortmund, in the Champions League in the quarterfinals at the later winner Real Madrid.(ZEIT)

Harington and Leslie "Game of Thrones"

"Game of Thrones" stars conspire

Stylishly, "Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have announced their engagement: They switched an ad in the British "Times".

In the shooting of the fantasy saga "Game of Thrones", Kit Harington and Rose Leslie met in 2012. In the film, they fell in love with each other as Jon Schnee and Ygritte. In real life, they then equaled their characters.

As the BBC and other media reports, the couple has now become engaged. "If you find someone already attractive and then play a couple in the show, it is very easy to fall in love," said Harington last year of the Italian "Vogue".

Leslie left the series in 2014, played a year later alongside Idris Elba in the fourth season of "Luther". Harington is a fan of "Game of Thrones".

A few months ago, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman, 50, Harrington had protested in a talkshow quite candidly to the engagement. "If you are already together, I find it somehow nice to conspire." The British actor replied, "I'm being forced by Nicole Kidman, step by step."(spiegel)

For Jamaica A Maximum Of Two Years

The AfD move into the Bundestag is democracy at work - and shows us the ruin of the German party landscape. The threatening coalition between the Union, the Free Democratic Party and the Greens and Greens will in any case be only an exhaustive alliance on time.

In the morning of the dawning day, a rubble field, the rubble field of the party landscape of post-war history, extends before us . This choice was no less than an earthquake, but one with an announcement. The Social Democrats, once the largest people's party, are marginalized at twenty percent . A cultural movement that has given millions of workers a warm home feeling is only a shadow of their own. The election has shown what has already been suggested in the election campaign: the SPD is not able to find and set the issues with which it is opposed the left-handed Union.

Exactly this will not change in the coming years. The fact that the SPD in the opposition can return to old strength is indeed the straw, to which their officials and followers now cling. But it is a fallacy . Only the fundamental opposition to the AfD - which will be much easier for her than the Union concerned about the right margin - is not a new issue.

The jubilant supporters of the AfD , who are going to enter the Bundestag with dozens of right-wing radicals, are pulling through the debris field with waving flags . We will hear speeches that shame us . We will shudder before their nationalism and the backward-looking world of ideas . We will see scenes of ignorance and dilettanteism that make us stunned . And we will be experiencing a movement whose protagonists are already attacking each other and possibly disassembling themselves.

There are turbulent years before us

And yet, the arrival of the AfD is democracy at work , it is the manifest protest against the unresolved issues of immigration. It is an expression of the fear and uncertainty that has affected part of the republic. But democracy at work is also the fact that the rest of the Parliament and the country - that is, the vastly predominantly moderate majority - opposes the contempt for this backward movement and combats it with all the methods of parliamentary democracy, not least with convincing government work. It will be turbulent years !


This will also be the case for the chancellor , because, after the Social Democrats' withdrawal from a grand coalition, they must now bring together four parties which can not be more different. Between the right edge of the Union and the left part of the Greens lie worlds. Many positions of the economic liberal FDP collide head-on with the socialized ideas of the Union. Obedrein, the CSU will try to gain territory on the right-hand side so as not to have to experience the voting mood of yesterday during the forthcoming regional elections . And yet: Merkel must try, new elections would be a rough defeat and would in no case give more stable positions. Merkel must tame the strikes of their future coalition and force them into an alliance.

Such coalitions are, as the experience in Schleswig-Holstein shows, exhausting to exhaustive . The chances that the alliance will last until the end of the legislature are estimated to be far below 50 per cent (nail me down on it, and if I were wrong, I would happily retire after four years). To that extent, there is an obvious point of view: the CDU / CSU, FDP and Greens start as a temporary coalition whose protagonists after about two years exhausted abandon be. Perhaps until then the AfD had disarmed enough. Perhaps the SPD then realized that the opposition was getting even less than the government's participation. Surely the Chancellor will then have established for herself that it is now enough. The result would be new elections , the end of the Merkel era and a new government - led by its successor.

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In any case, periods of time that can hardly become more exciting - not just outside the political arena, where the conflict between the two rocket men from North Korea and the United States is exacerbated in a frightened way, are breaking down. But also in the domestic policy, with a fragile government, a SPD acting desperately on the subject, and a Union that will try hard to make the right ground lost. That's why we decided not to let our countdown newsletter end with this post, but to prepare for the next election.

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